Application Deadline: 31 May 2026
Department: Engagement
Employment Type: Permanent - Full Time
Location: Field
Reporting To: Senior Farms Engagement Manager
Compensation: £48,000 - £58,000 / year
Job purpose
· This role is responsible for coordinating, with other industry stakeholders, a national network of commercial demonstration farms that support the validation, showcasing, and scaling of emerging agri-tech innovations.
· The role will understand the consistency of approach, data capture, and delivery standards across the UK demonstration farm networks—enabling technologies to be demonstrated credibly, repeatedly, and at scale.
· The postholder will look to strengthen cooperation across demonstration farms while expanding the network to include innovative, commercially progressive farm businesses capable of accelerating adoption and sector-wide impact.
This role is field-based, which means you’ll be travelling to client sites, partner sites and our locations as part of your day-to-day work. You may also work from your home address for a minority of the week or attend one of our sites from time to time. Our main locations are: Oxford, York, Edinburgh, Cranfield, Newport (Midlands).
· Coordinate and map, with industry stakeholders, collaboration between demonstration farms nationally to share learning, challenges, and best practice.
· Ensure alignment between farm network activity and programme milestones, KPIs, and impact measurement requirements.
· Develop and understanding of scalable models for on-farm demonstrations across different sectors and production systems.
· Work closely with programme teams to ensure there is awareness of where technologies can be deployed in commercial farm environments across the UK
· Lead on collaborative demonstration events that showcase innovation in action.
· Identify forward-thinking commercial farms suitable for inclusion in the UK agri-tech centre partner farm network.
· Build and maintain strong relationships with potential new host farms and ecosystem partners.
· Expand the wider demonstration ecosystem, including collaboration with supply chain partners and advisory networks.
· Foster collaboration between farm hosts, engagement managers, industry stakeholders, and programme teams.
· Support the development of “host farm champions” who act as credible ambassadors for technology adoption.
· Ensure farm network activities contribute directly to commercialisation pathways for agri-tech ventures.
· Maintain accurate records of demonstration activity, data capture, and stakeholder engagement.
· Contribute to impact reporting, case studies, and portfolio-level performance metrics.
· Deep understanding of commercial farming systems across the UK.
· Experience coordinating multi-site farm demonstration or farm network activity.
· Proven relationship-building skills with agri-tech ventures, value chain, primary producers and rural stakeholders.
· Organisational skills to manage national coordination activity.
· Experience working within an agri-tech or innovation programme environment.
· Understanding of data collection, benchmarking, and impact measurement.
· Established network with agri-tech ventures and UK agriculture.
· Network coordination and collaboration.
· Strategic relationship building.
· Clear communicator across technical and commercial audiences.
· Outcome-driven and organised.
· Systems thinking across innovation and adoption pathways.
Additional Information
Travel will be required.
UK driving licence is mandatory to have.
You will be part of a pioneering organisation driving innovation in agri-tech, whilst working in a collaborative and forward-thinking environment. There is opportunity to grow and develop within a newly established organisation, plus a range of benefits including:
If you are ready for a role that truly makes an impact - join us and be part of something meaningful. We’d love to hear from you!
Established by the UK’s innovation agency, Innovate UK, the UK Agri-Tech Centre offers a complete life-cycle of support, driving agri-tech innovation and adoption through world-class facilities, expert knowledge and business support, saving you time and accelerating your progress.
We strengthen the connections between science, business and funders to accelerate research and development, tackling the agri-industry’s most critical challenges such as climate change, labour availability, disease mitigation and environmental sustainability.
As an independent, not-for-profit organisation, we are trusted to provide leadership and guidance to progress transformational change for people and the planet while stimulating economic growth by offering physical centres with cutting-edge R&D laboratories, testbeds, factories and offices.
